===== USS Gott, Deck 7 ===== what was a dark and quite corridoor, void of any life, was now alive with the sound of phaser fire and the striking light from the flamethrower. it seemed that the team had walked stright into an ambush, clearly the bugs were smarter than Ra'nar thought and they were as tough as hell. With his rifle gone Ra'nar was using the greanade luncher set on a low yeild so that a piece of the deck was not blown out. Ra'nar fire two rounds at a charging bug, the fire blowing one of its legs clean off and the second landing inits chest before exploding. The explosion sent glunk and limbs from the creature flying all over the team forcing most to wipe their faces before they continued to fire. Slow the team pushed forward with small bursts from the bug zapper clearing the way and with the rest mopping up. As they rounded a corner the only thing that couldbe seen was bug after bug after.... Ra'nar turned around to see Jacobs on rear gaurd being overwhelded, somehow the X'chi were in front and behing the team, {the dirty bas...} Ra'nar did not have time to finsh his sentace. "I'm low!" shouted Jacobs. Ra'nar unhooked the two power cells left over from his rifle and tossed them over the jacobs who quickly reloaded and continued to fire. Ra'nar fired another few rounds at the charging X'chi, this time aimed at the floor under the bugs, the explosion lifted three bugs clean up though the air impacting in horrible mess on the celling. Ra'nar realised he two was low, hehad only one mag of ten greanades left. {Amazing, one mag should last two hours in any situation, I have used up six since my rifle died half an hour ago.} It is strange what soldiers think about when in combat. checking to make sure he still had his MkII hand phaser which he would have to use after his ammo for the greanade luncher was umpty Ra'nar returned to the fire trying to cause as much damage as possible with the little ammo he had left. Infront of them they were making progess, there could only have been ten X'chi left but behind they were charging in dozens, By the time Ra'nar turned to help Jacobs it was too late, he turned to see an X'chi rip the young man apart. Ra'nar charged firing at the group and with his last round switch to high explosive and let it rip into the side of the corridoor smashing tthough the hull of the ship. The team hed on tight as the vaccum sucked out the X'chi before the forcefields kicked in. Ra'nar moved over to the blooded man, what a mess he was. His eyes were still open, ra'nar put his hand across his head to close his eyes as was the custom for humans when suddenly jacobs hand grabbed Ra'nar. Ra'nar was shocked that he was still alive, he moved in closer trying to listen to what the man was saying but he could only hear gargling nosies. Ra'nar stepped back from the man to overview his injures. His legs had been ripped clean off and there was a hole the size of ra'nar's fist in his shomach. it was only a matter off time before he died. "Is there anything you can do for him," asked Cortez. "Yes," answered ra'nar injecting the fatal drug into jacobs neck. ===== Eng Log ===== Private First Class Ra'nar ODA Medical spec USS Chimer _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters